When adverse outcomes happen, who is to blame?
These knee-jerk reactions can be helpful in a hot moment.
Sure.
Look around, and if anyone is at fault, deal with the situation and with the perpetrators.
But as the time when action can influence the outcome wanes, this type of blame reaction becomes less and less helpful.
Oftentimes, there actually isn’t any direct fault.
Recently, I shared a pair of posts.
One was about care in the first trimester, and the other was about the mystery of miscarriage.
In the first scenario, there are things we can do.
We can change improve our light environment1. We can expose ourselves to less emfs2. We can sunbathe3. And so on. The pregnancy is alive and well, and we work to keep it that way.
Here’s the rub: you are not a statistic.
Correlation does not equal causation.
In the second scenario, there is nothing we can do.
Without intuition, reason is as useless as a headlamp for p…